Material-components-android: Setting backgroundTint on MaterialButton and keeping/setting disabled state

[adityabhaskar]

Setting backgroundTint to a Material button changes the background for both enabled and disabled states.

Enabled button after adding tint:

Disabled button after adding tint:

Disabled button without adding tint:

Setting background tint to a state list drawable doesn't work either. Additionally, when set to a state list, it ignores the backgroundTintMode completely.

Is there another way of setting button style for the disabled state that I'm missing, or is this just not supported?

[gsajith]

Hi Aditya!

The correct way to set this would be to set a color state list to the backgroundTint attribute. The color state list should look something like: https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/blob/master/lib/java/com/google/android/material/button/res/color/mtrl_btn_bg_color_selector.xml

Was the state list you set similar to that?

[adityabhaskar]

Thanks Gautham!

That worked. The problem was with my state list. I was setting a colour for state enabled=false, and then a fall back colour for the default enabled state. It appears I had to do the opposite.

Cheers!